Secrets of Success

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WNYC Studios

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Science

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2010

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Malcolm Gladwell doesn't like Gifted and Talented Education Programs. And he doesn't believe that innate ability can fully explain superstar hockey players or billionaire software giants. In this podcast, we listen in on a conversation between Robert and Malcolm recorded at the 92nd St Y.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:01.1	Okay.
0:02.4	All right.
0:03.6	Okay.
0:05.0	All right.
0:06.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
0:10.1	Shorts!
0:11.5	From W. N. Y.
0:13.8	C.
0:14.7	C?
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.5	And NPR.
0:18.7	Hey, I'm Janet.
0:19.9	I'm Moomrod.
0:20.3	I'm Robert Krelwich.
0:21.6	This is Radio Lab. The podcast. The podcast. We should just say as a sort of set the ground here, set the ground, does that, I don't know. Set the table. Table? Whatever. That we are on the cusp of delivering five really fantastic shows right now. So we're busy, busy, busy, which got us thinking about a conversation that I had a few years ago.
0:40.6	Which was conveniently there waiting for us. With Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers and Blink. I was over at the 90 Second Street Y in New York City. Okay, just pull it to your mouth there. The subject was, how do you explain people of really unusual exceptional talent?
0:55.3	Like, why are they so good?
0:56.4	Yeah, what is the nature of being exceptional?
0:58.6	Is this, you know, working hard or in needability? Is it an accident?
1:02.1	And as we all know, in America, there's a real hunt on from a very early age to find the gifted and talented children.
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